Stu is considered by most to the very best NL Hold em Poker gambler ever.
The 3 time World Poker Champ was born in New York in 1953 and started betting poker before becomming a teenager.
The young gambler started out playing gin and at the age of ten had won his primary gin tournament, while on holiday with his mother and father. By the age of 14 the small poker genius had turned professional and stopped going to school.
In ‘54 Stu entered the history books by winning 10,000 dollars in a gin tournament without sacrificing a single hand, a record which still stands in New York today.
The fast speaking superstar has been likened, in poker terms, to athletic greats such as Joe Namath and Tiger Woods. Stu had a real ability for playing poker except regardless of his achievements in Holdem poker, he preferred betting gin.
Stu once said that there may a few day be a greater No Limit Hold’em gambler than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a greater gin player.
In 1980 Stu Ungar was put on the world map as one of the finest Texas hold em Poker gamblers in the world when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the very first time. Amazingly it was the 1st time he had played in the tournament.
The subsequent year he dismissed any suggestions that it had been luck, by successfully defending his title. And in 1997 Stu set the record by succeeding his 3rd World poker championship.
But this poker master also battled with drug abuse and a year after winning his third title Stu Ungar died in his hotel room. According to medical doctors, he had died from cardiac arrest which was brought on by his lifestyle.
Stu Ungar had began with nothing but his ability and talent for the game which made this poker fantastic a millionaire numerous times over.
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